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If you think you know about the world’s most Because these marvels don’t pay much attention to country amazing sights, it’s time to look again. This book borders, nor have we: the places in this book are arranged celebrates under-the-radar places, from the not by continent or country, but loosely by their line of mysterious and the mesmerising to the downright bizarre. longitude. It’s a hat-tip to the way our planet resists attempts In these pages are rainbow eucalyptus trees, a stomach- to impose order upon it, with the most surprising and churning cocktail, ghost towns, a bridge made of trees, an wonderful of results. underwater museum, a town called Hell and a band of Caribbean swimming pigs. In a time when technology has given us a better understanding than ever before of the hows and whys of Some of these marvels are entirely man-made – Nebraska’s life, these places show us we don’t know the half of it. As eye-popping replica of Stonehenge made entirely from the human race strives above all towards profitability and vintage cars (page 47), for example, or ’s so- efficiency, there is a delight to be found in those marvels called ‘Chicken Church’ (page 249) – while others are made by human hands not to chase success or increase the a curious accident of human endeavour, such as Ohio’s bottom line, but for the simple joy of it. It’s a life lesson we eerie abandoned ghost ship (page 55). Some needed no could all learn from: taking time out from hectic schedules to intervention from us whatsoever – take the Mexican cave appreciate the mysteries and wonders our planet has to offer. filled with gargantuan, glistening crystals (page 49) or the disappearing island of Fonuafo’ou (page 9), which prove But first, of course, we need to know where to look for them. that this planet produces astounding phenomena without Fortunately, wherever you are in the world, there will be a a hint of fanfare, while most of us are busy elsewhere, sight to enthrall you nearby. These pages are filled with a snapping selfies in front of their better-known cousins. few hundred ideas of where to start. Happy marvelling! INTRO

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beaches La Cueva del Esplendor 65 Divided Church 16 Grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary 50 Karosta Prison 189 California’s Lost Coast 24 Les Grottes Petrifiantes 134 Dobsinská Ice Cave 173 Gruta do Lago Azul 107 Kazakhstan 221, 225 Hidden beach 47 Longyou 256 Dock of Souls 74 Guanajuato Mummies 211 Kbal Spean 240 Hot Water Beach 295 Postojna Caves 160 Douaumont Ossuary 159 Guinea Pig Last Supper 80 Kelpies 122 Plastic Beach 22 Ra Paulette's Sandstone Caves 46 Drina River House 173 Gumbez of Manas 224 Kijk-Kubus Museum-House 140 INDEX Playa de Gulpiyuri 120 Sinca Veche 193 Drotsky's Cave 183 Gunung Padang 244 Kiribati 14 Star Sand Beaches 265 Waitomo Glowworm Caves 294 Dude Chilling Park 22 Kiritimati 14 A Beinhaus Hallstatt 158 Cayman Islands 59 h Kjeragbolten 146 Abandoned Ghost Ship 55 Belarus 198 Cementerio de Trenes 83 e Haenyeo 266 Kolmanskop 162 52 134, 156, 189, 269 cemeteries Easter Island 44 Ha'iku Stairs 9 Korean Demilitarized Zone 265 220 52 Cementerio de Trenes 83 East Side Gallery 156 Hanging Coffins 262 Kostnice v Sedlci 158 Albania 174 Beneficial Microbes Museum 263 Merry Cemetery 185 Ecce Homo 126 Hang Nga Guesthouse 248 Kubu Island 192 Albania’s Concrete Bunkers 174 Benin 136 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 76 Ecuador 59 Haputale 225 Kummakivi 147 Albergo Burchiant 189 Berlin Square 156 Center for Disease Control Museum 58 Egungun Voodoo Ceremony 136 Harbin Ice Sculpture Festival 233 Kyaiktiyo Pagoda 229 Alsos House 180 Berlin Walls Around the World 156 Cerro Rico 90 159, 203 Hashima 270 Kyrgyzstan 224 Am Phu Cave 248 Bhutan 227 Chao Mae Tuptim Shrine 230 Ein Hod 157 Haw Par Villa 236 Angola 154 Big Banana 287 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 208 Eisenhower Air Raid Shelter 131 Heaven Lake 267 l Aniakchak National Monument 10 Big Golden Guitar 284 Chicken, Alaska 20 Electrum 293 Heladería Coromoto 82 Lac Rose 115 animals Big Lobster 287 44, 71, 74, 78, 81 El Peñón de Guatapé 70 Hell 59 La Cueva del Esplendor 65 Assateague Island’s Feral Horses 69 Big Ned Kelly 287 Chimi Lhakhang 227 Elvis Toilet 269 Henley On Todd Regatta 272 Lake Ballard 261 Bat Migration 201 Big Pheasant 287 229, 233, 234, 253, 254, 256, 261, England 128, 131, 131, 204 Henn na Hotel 189 Lake Hillier 264 Buffalo Beach 250 Big Pineapple 284 264, 267, 268, 269 Ephesus Toilets 268 Hidden beach 47 Lake Kaindy 225 Caicos Conch Farm 80 Billionth Barrel Monument 250 Chiricahua National Monument 147 Estonia 186 Hill of Crosses 184 lakes Cat Island 278 Bizarre Bulgarian Road-Trip 195 Christmas Island Grotto 242 European Parliament 156 Hiroshima Shadows 272 Band-e-Amir Lakes 220 Creepy Crawly Market 238 Bocksten Man 211 Church of Santa Maria 159 Hokitika Wildfoods Festival 292 Fuxian Lake 234 Giant Pink Slugs of Mount Kaputar 281 Bolivia 83, 90, 92 Citerne Portugaise 119 f Holi 232 Heaven Lake 267 Jigokudani Hot Springs 277 Bosnia & Hercegovina 169, 173 Cliff Dwellings of the Dogon People 122 Fairy Circles 164 54 Lake Ballard 261 Karni Mata Temple 222 183, 192 Cocos Islands Golf Club 230 Fake Houses of Leinster Gardens 131 Hong Kong 250 Lake Hillier 264 Nara Deer Park 276 Brazil 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 146 64, 65, 69, 70, 74, 75 Féis An Eilein 99 Hotel Cecil 189 Lake Kaindy 225 Pig Beach 68 Broad Street Water Pump 131 Coloso 104 Felled Golden Spruce 23 Hotel Viru 186, 204, 284 Land Divers of Pentecost Island 290 Postojna Caves 160 Brunei 250 colours Ferrowhite 101 Hot Water Beach 295 231 Red Crab Migration 241 Buffalo Beach 250 Aniakchak National Monument 10 festivals 232–233 Houtou Wan 264 Latvia 189 Snake Island 109 157, 182, 183, 195 Giant Pink Slugs of Mount Kaputar 281 Fiji 8 Hoxton Street Monster Supplies 131 Le Morne Brabant 216 Tombs of Bat 214 Lac Rose 115 Taveuni 8 Hue Festival 233 Le Palais Idéal 142 Waitomo Glowworm Caves 294 c Lake Hillier 264 147, 177 Hundertwasserhaus 171 Les Archives du Coeur 273 Wild Horses of the Namib Desert 171 Caicos Conch Farm 80 Lake Kaindy 225 Fonuafo’ou Disappearing Island 9 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai 9 Les Grottes Petrifiantes 134 Antarctica 99 California’s Lost Coast 24 Merry Cemetery 185 Forest Guitar 92 Hutt River Principality 207 Lima Witches’ Market 66 Antogo Fishing Frenzy 125 238, 240 Rainbow Eucalyptus Trees 17 134, 135, 138, 142, 159, 207 Lithuania 177, 184, 206 Aokigahara Forest 277 Campanile di Curon 151 Rainbow Village 260 Freetown Christiania 207 i Living Fires 193 88, 92, 96, 101, 104, 106, 211 Campanópolis 106 Red Crab Migration 241 Fremont Public Sculptures 30 Iceland 114 Llullaillaco Children 211 art 22, 23, 39, 99, 147 Zhangye Danxiá National Geopark 229 Frenchman’s Pass 86 Icelandic Phallological Museum 114 London’s Strangest Sights 128 Ecce Homo 126 Cape Leeuwin 252 Conch Republic 207 Fusterlandia 60 Iceman Ötzi 211 Longyou Caves 256 Fremont Public Sculptures 30 Cardrona Bra Fence 289 Convento dei Cappuccini 158 Futuro House 280 Ice Phallus of Amarnath Cave 224 Loopgraafbrug 141 Fusterlandia 60 Carhenge 47 Coober Pedy’s Grassless Golf Course 274 Fuxian Lake 234 222, 224, 227, 232, 144 Lost City of Thonis-Heracleion 203 Guinea Pig Last Supper 80 Casa Dracula 190 Cook Islands 16 Indonesia 244, 245, 249 Lunchbox Museum 58 Lake Ballard 261 CasAnus 189 Coral Castle 62 G 210, 212, 213 Lund Nasothek 154 Punta Pite 81 Castell de Púbol 139 Costa Rica 57, 58 Gambia 116 islands Lyngstoylvatnet 142 Sarajevo Roses 169 Catacombes de Paris 138 Cow up a Tree Sculpture 279 Gereja Ayam 249 Deception Island 99 83, 86 catacombs Creepy Crawly Market 238 148, 156 Féis An Eilein 99 M Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Temple 235 Catacombes de Paris 138 161, 170 Ghana 127 Snake Island 109 230, 232, 235 Asen’s Fortress 196 Catacombs of the Monasterio de San Crooked Forest 169 ghost towns 157 Mali 121, 122, 125 Assateague Island’s Feral Horses 69 Francisco 63 Cross Bones Graveyard 131 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 208 Italian Chapel 123 Mandalay-Yangon Expressway 226 147, 207, 241, 242, 251, 252, 253, Catacombs of the Monasterio de 60 Hashima 270 151, 155, 158, 166, 206, 211 Man Meets the Sea 143 261, 264, 230, 272, 274, 276, 279, 280, San Francisco 63 Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument 78 Houtou Wan 264 Manneken Pis 269 281, 284–287 Catedral de Sal 74 158 Oradour-sur-Glane 135 j Marshall Islands 281 Australia’s Big Roadside Attractions 284–287 Cat Island 278 Villa Epecuén 96 156 Maslenitsa 233 158, 171 Cave of the Crystals 49 d Giant Koala 287 Jamaica Military Museum 156 Matobo National Park 201 caves Dallas Hilton Anatole 157 Giant Pink Slugs of Mount Kaputar 281 189, 232, 265, 269, 270, 272, 273, Mauritius 216 B Actun Tunichil Muknal 52 Darvaza Crater 217 Giant Pumpkin Regatta 29 276, 277, 278 Mausoleum of Mao Zedong 253 Bahamas 68 Am Phu Cave 248 Dashain 233 Glass House 39 Jigokudani Hot Springs 277 Tree Bridges 227 Balanced Rock 147 Cave of the Crystals 49 Deadvlei 164 Global Seed Vault 168 Memorial to UTA 772 154 Balancing Rock of Mahabalipuram 144 Christmas Island Grotto 242 Deception Island 99 Gloucester Tree 253 k Mercury Mine 161 Band-e-Amir Lakes 220 Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument 78 Democratic Republic of the Congo 199 Gnomesville 252 Kaleto Fortress 182 Merry Cemetery 185 Bat Migration 201 Dobsinská Ice Cave 173 Denis Severs House 128 Golden Gumboot 287 Kanamara Matsuri 232 47, 49, 211 Battery Park 157 Drotsky's Cave 183 Denmark 143, 151, 153, 207 Grande Mosquée 121 Kane Kwei Coffins 127 Micronations 204–207 Bay Islands Underwater Museum 54 Gruta do Lago Azul 107 Devils Marbles 147 178–181 Kaplica Czaszek 159 Micronesia 273 Bayterek Monument 221 Ice Phallus of Amarnath Cave 224 Diquís Spheres 57 Greenland 210 Karni Mata Temple 222 Miniatur Wunderland 148

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Monastery of San Francisco 159 Pamukkale-Hierapolis 202 My Son 245 Senegal 115, 116 t v 233, 234 Parque Cretácico 92 Olkhon Island 246 Senegambian Stone Circles 116 Taiwan 260, 263 Vale da Lua 108 Montserrat 93 Parque Francisco Alvarado 58 ossuaries 158 158 Tanks of Flamenco Beach 87 Valley of Geysers 283 Monument of Hugh Glass 47 Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Pause-Rest-Worship Chapel 42 Tree 29 Tank Town USA 59 Valley of the Roses 196 Moomin World 177 Maranhenses 112 Prince Philip Movement 290 Sinca Veche 193 Taumata Hill 297 Vanuatu 288, 290 Moonhole 98 Pause-Rest-Worship Chapel 42 Pu’upiha Cemetery 18 Singapore 236 Tazaungdaing Festival 233 Vatican City 157 Moray 79 Pedra da Gávea 146 Salvation Mountain 40 Singing Dunes 164 Tektite Underwater Habitat 95 Vatican Gardens 157 Morgan Island Aruba Waterpark 83 63, 64, 66, 72, 79, 80, 82, 159 San Joaquin Church 263 Singing Trees 151 Telles Family Shrine 42 Venezuela 82 119, 120 Pet Cemetery 131 Santuario de las Lajas 64 Sinulog 232 Temple of Mithras 131 Via Appia Antica 155 Mr Toilet House 268 232, 262, 263 Telles Family Shrine 42 Skull Tower 158 Falls Museum 75 Viaduct Petrobras 110 Mt Tâmpa 190 Pig Beach 68 The Divided Church 16 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 76 210, 230 233, 245, 248 Mumin Papa Cafe 269 Pigeon Towers 212 Wooden Churches 176 173, 176 Thaipusam 232 Villa Epecuén 96 Museo del Cerebro 65 Pindos Gorge 180 Republic of Molossia 207 160, 161 The Bahamas 68 Villa Puerto Edén 71 Museum Dr Guislain 134 Plague Pit of St Paul’s 131 Republic of Užupis 206 Snagov Island Monastery 190 The Big Merino 287 Virgin Islands 95 museums Plain of Jars 231 République du Saugeais 207 Snake Island 109 The Big Rocking Horse 287 Volcán de Lodo El Totumo 69 Bay Islands Underwater Museum 54 Plastic Beach 22 Rock Arch, Spitzkoppe 164 Soho Noses 128 The Bridge to Nowhere 295 volcanoes Beneficial Microbes Museum 263 Playa de Gulpiyuri 120 Rock Paintings of Parque Nacional Serra da Solar System Trail 279 The Giant Flag 183 Aniakchak National Monument 10 Center for Disease Control Museum 58 Plitvice Lakes National Park 170 Capivara 111 Sombrero of Celendín 64 The Heart of Voh 288 Fonuafo’ou Disappearing Island 9 Ferrowhite 101 159, 169 rocks Soufriere Hills Volcano 93 The Lost City of Thonis-Heracleion 203 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai 9 Icelandic Phallological Museum 114 Porcelain Palace 268 Diquís Spheres 57 Sourtoe Cocktail 22 180 Nyiragongo 199 Kijk-Kubus Museum-House 140 Portugal 117 El Peñón de Guatapé 70 157, 172, 183, 193 The Stanley Hotel 189 Soufriere Hills Volcano 93 Lunchbox Museum 58 Portuguese Settlement 230 Gunung Padang 244 South Korea 156, 265, 266, 267, 268 Thiksey Gompa 268 Stromboli 166 Lund Nasothek 154 Postojna Caves 160 Kyaiktiyo Pagoda 229 120, 126, 139, 159 Thracian Burial Mounds 196 Valley of Geysers 283 Museo del Cerebro 65 Preikestolen 147 Navel of the World 44 225 Toilet Fountain 269 Volcán de Lodo El Totumo 69 Museum Dr Guislain 134 Prince Philip Movement 290 Princess of Hope 220 SS Ayrfield 282 toilets 268–269 White Island 298 Tequendama Falls Museum 75 Princess of Hope 220 Racetrack Playa 36 Star Sand Beaches 265 Tombs of Bat 214 Unclaimed Baggage Center 51 Principality of Hutt River 251 Rai Stones 273 St Catherine of Siena 211 Tonga 9 Walmart Museum 51 Principality of Sealand 204 Senegambian stone circles 116 St Catherine’s Monastery 159 Toto Museum 269 w 226, 229, 233 Principality of Seborga 206 Stob Pyramids 183 Steampunk HQ 292 towns Waitavala Water Slide 8 My Son 245 Puerto Rico 87 Weeping Rocks 245 St George’s Mall 157 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 208 Waitomo Glowworm Caves 294 Punta Pite 81 Zelízy Stone Devils 161 St Leonard’s Church 159 Chicken, Alaska 20 Walmart Museum 51 n Pu’upiha Cemetery 18 Zhangye Danxiá National Geopark 229 Stob Pyramids 183 Fuxian Lake 234 Water Clock 120 Naadam 233 185, 190, 193 strange buildings Hell 59 waterfalls 162–165, 171 q Royal Republic of Ladonia 207 Bayterek Monument 221 Lyngstoylvatnet 142 Kbal Spean 240 Nara Deer Park 276 Q’eswachaka Rope Bridge 82 Runit Dome 281 Campanópolis 106 Taumata 297 La Cueva del Esplendor 65 National Library of Belarus 198 Qilakitsoq Mummies 210 210, 233, 246, 283 Castell de Púbol 139 Villa Puerto Edén 71 Plitvice Lakes National Park 170 National Palace of Culture 157 Quinta da Regaleira Wells 117 Ryugyong Hotel 186 Catedral de Sal 74 Tree of Ténéré 150 Weeping Rocks 245 Nature’s Time Post 147 Citerne Portugaise 119 trees Wave Organ 28 Nave Espacial de Varginha 110 r s Cliff Dwellings of the Dogon People 122 Aokigahara Forest 277 Weeping Rocks 245 Navel of the World 44 Rabjerg Mile 153 Salt men 210 Drina River House 173 Crooked Forest 169 Whispering Wall 276 Nazca Lines 72 Racetrack Playa 36 Salvation Mountain 40 Ferrowhite 101 Felled Golden Spruce 23 Whistler Train Wreck Site 26 Nepal 233 Rainbow Village 260 San Joaquin Church 263 Futuro House 280 Forest Guitar 92 White Island 298 288 Rai Stones 273 San Juan de Dios 56 Glass House 39 Gloucester Tree 253 Wild Horses of the Namib Desert 171 New Zealand 289, 292, 293, 294, 295, Ra Paulette’s Sandstone Caves 46 Santuario de las Lajas 64 Grande Mosquée 121 Meghalaya Tree Bridges 227 Winchester Mystery House 32 297, 298 Real Dracula Trail 190 Sarajevo Roses 169 Gumbez of Manas 224 Osun Sacred Forest 141 Witches’ Hill 177 Nicaragua 56 Red Church 196 Scotland 122, 123 Hundertwasserhaus 171 Shoe Tree 29 Wolfberg Arch 172 Niger 150, 154 Red Crab Migration 241 sculpture Italian Chapel 123 Singing Trees 151 Wooden Churches 176 141 religious sites Car Henge 47 Kaleto Fortress 182 Tree of Ténéré 150 World’s Largest Maze 13 Nine Mile Canyon 43 Actun Tunichil Muknal 52 Coloso 104 Le Palais Idéal 142 Tremendous Toilets 268–269 World’s Steepest Street 289 North Korea 186, 267 Arulmigu Sri Rajakaliamman Temple 235 Coral Castle 62 Moonhole 98 Triftbrucke 142 wrecks North Korean Submarine 267 Catacombs of the Monasterio de San Cow up a Tree Sculpture 279 Palácio de Ferro 154 202, 268 Abandoned Ghost Ship 55 142, 146, 147, 168 Francisco 63 Dock of Souls 74 Pause-Rest-Worship Chapel 42 217 SS Ayrfield 282 Nyiragongo 199 Catedral de Sal 74 Electrum 293 Pigeon Towers 212 Turks & Caicos 80 Whistler Train Wreck Site 26 Chao Mae Tuptim Shrine 230 Forest Guitar 92 San Joaquin Church 263 o Chimi Lhakhang 227 Fremont Public Sculptures 30 San Juan de Dios 56 u y Old Car City 56 El Peñón de Guatapé 70 Hang Nga Guesthouse 248 Santuario de las Lajas 64 Ukok Princess 210 Yazd Towers of Silence 213 Olkhon Island 246 festivals 232–233 Kelpies 122 Steampunk HQ 292 Ukraine 208 Yolyn Am 234 Oman 214 Gereja Ayam 249 Lake Ballard 261 Tequendama Falls Museum 75 Unclaimed Baggage Center 51 Oradour-sur-Glane 135 Grande Mosquée 121 Man Meets the Sea 143 Upside-Down House 261 Underwater Post Office 288 z Osun Sacred Forest 141 Grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary 50 Memorial to UTA 772 154 Winchester Mystery House 32 Unsettling Hotels 186 201 Owl House 193 Hill of Crosses 184 Osun Sacred Forest 141 Wooden Churches 176 Upside-Down House 261 Zelízy Stone Devils 161 Ice Phallus of Amarnath Cave 224 Owl House 193 Yazd Towers of Silence 213 USA 9, 10, 13, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 29, 30, Zero Aldwych 269 p Italian Chapel 123 Solar System Trail 279 Stromboli 166 32, 36, 40, 42, 43, 46, 47, 50, 51, 55, Zhangye Danxiá National Geopark 229 220 Karni Mata Temple 222 Witches’ Hill 177 St Vincent & The Grenadines 98 56, 58, 59, 69, 76, 95, 147, 157, 189, Zhengbei Tower 254 Palácio de Ferro 154 Kbal Spean 240 Zelízy Stone Devils 161 Sweden 154, 207, 211 207, 269 201 Palatul Voievodal Curtea Veche 190 Kyaiktiyo Pagoda 229 Sea Organ 161 Swing at the End of The World 59 Ushuaia Time Capsule 88 Palermo’s Sleeping Beauty 211 Meteora 178–181 See Uey Sae Ung 210 142

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